Strange Chinese characters in price field (no multilingual shop)

[quartus]

Hi

After a migration from Joomla 2.5.28 and VM 2 to 3.0.9 (in the meantime updated to 3.0.10), we have a very strange issue with the price field in our vm shop:

In the middle of the displayed price, a chinese character is displayed. This is how it looks like

Fr. 1鮦.80 

• We have single language environment ((Swiss)German), so there's absolutely nothing in Chinese all over the page
• In the backend, the price is displayed correctly
• it's not just on the product detail page, it's on all pages, the product price is displayed
• As it seems, the issue occurs only with products, that have child products (and with the child products, of course)
• I searched for the characters inside the db - there's absolutely nothing

I just don't figure it out, where the problem is. Since we should have gone online by last week, I desperately hope, anyone knows about this problem - an even more important - knows, how to solve it or where to search for the reason.

thanks in advance for any help!

[GJC Web Design]

without a live url to the prob pages highly unlikely

[PRO]

I would 1st look in your currency settings

then, it could be an encoding issue

are you testing with my template overrides?

[quartus]

Dear PRO, dear GJC

Thanks for checking my topic!

@ PRO: sorry, what to you mean by "are you testing with my template overrides?"

I did check the language / currency option as well. Everyhting seems to be set correctly there. I also changed the font without any result. I just don't get, why just one single character in the middle of the field value is changed.

So here I'am with the link to the product page with the issue:

http://test.metallbauteile.ch/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=productdetails&virtuemart_product_id=115&Itemid=324

the other product with child products works like it should, I don't see any difference between them.

http://test.metallbauteile.ch/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=productdetails&virtuemart_product_id=1&Itemid=270

user: mbtsag
pass: mbtsag

thank you.

[PRO]

i mean, have you tried with a standard joomla template

[GJC Web Design]

totally bizarre.. it really is coming back with a chinese encode letter

Fr. 2&#39262.60

http://www.isthisthingon.org/unicode/index.phtml?glyph=995E

{"basePrice":null,"variantModification":null,"basePriceVariant":null,"basePriceWithTax":null,"discountedPriceWithoutTax"
:null,"salesPrice":"Fr. 2&#39262.60","priceWithoutTax":"Fr. 2&#39095.00","salesPriceWithDiscount":null
,"discountAmount":null,"taxAmount":"Fr. 167.60","unitPrice":null,"messages":"\n<div id=\"system-message-container
\">\n<\/div>"}

as pro said try with with the protostar template

[Jörgen]

Hello

I agree with GJC and Pro that this probably lies in the template overrides. Could be some styling of the price that has a missing quote or a wrongly escaped character ?

regards

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi

[quartus]

thank you, guys!

I'm checking out the template / override approach right now and get back to you.

[quartus]

Hello everybody

I just deactivated the overrides in the template (by deleting the folder) and I even activated the checkbox "use vm css" in the vm configuration. Although the layout was - like expected - completely destroyed - the creepy little chinese signs persist.

Now I noticed, the chinese characters are even there in the vm backend (products), but only in the list view. When I open the product (to "kill" the chinese character out of the field) they're gone - the price is like it should be, but unfortunately only there in the product details.

As far as I understand the situation, I could now exclude the template overrides so far (could I?). This and detecting the problem in the backend as well would mean... uhm, what exactly?

Thank's for any other ideas.

[Milbo]

Maybe it is the characterset of your server?

[quartus]

hey folks - I guess I found the cause, but honestly I have no idea where to fix it...

The problem obviously occurs, when I use the standard thousands seperator ' which is used by default in the Swiss currency settings.

When I use another separator (´), the bloody Chinese signs are gone - everywhere! Although ´ is actually not the right separator for Switzerland, I'm more than fine with this workaround.

But the (non-urgent) question remains: What is happening exactly (and where)? Since the problem occurs despite the activated template, it must be a problem in the guts  of my virtuemart installation (maybe caused by the migration)? Maybe anybody has a clue?

[Jörgen]

Hello

Using a quote in the middle of the value does give some problems. See if You can use the escape character sequence for the quote sign:

Code Select Expand

'

Regards

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi

[Milbo]

damn this forum needs an update for "like this. Yepp, Jörgen that is the answer.

[quartus]

Thanks, Jungs!

I already tried to enter

Code Select Expand

'

in the field "thousands seperator". The mysterious signs from the PRC are instantly back again. When I check the thousands separator field again, my new entry has been striped to just a "&".

Kinda weird, isn't it?

[Jörgen]

Hello quartus

That should have been the answer. There must be some decoding that misses the target. Looks like a mission for Max.

have a nice evening

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi